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When I built my chateau a few years back, it was simply an exercise of love-- bulk bricks had just become available, and the doors to creating larger and more complicated and detailed MOCs were opened. It, however, became this large labor of love (...) (22 years ago, 17-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Romanesque Church
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(...) I'll second that! Scott's already seen it because first setup is tonite but I'll be seeing it tomorrow (URL) (in case there's any Detroit area lurkers out there, come on out!!!) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-02, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Curved Glass Skyscraper
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This is a building I created almost entirely of clear, white, and gray curved panels. Raw Brickshelf pictures: (URL) Site including descriptions: (URL) Web Site: (URL) are appreciated (22 years ago, 26-Oct-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town) !
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| | Re: Romanesque Church
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(Sean Devolites) (...) Well, I started it on April 15th, when I went over to get the photos of the real church. It was done about a week or two before the GATS show July 12th... so the easy answer is about two and a half months. Actual building time (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-02, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: Romanesque Church
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Great Job Peter! Its a beautiful church! It looks accurate, and even if you left off a few things, it still looks detailed. How long did it take you to build? Hasta La Vista, Sean (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-02, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: Romanesque Church
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Peter & All, (...) This is a breathtaking creation, Peter. I was fortunate to sit next to it for most of the GATS Grand Rapids show, and it is stunning. You really captured the feel and look the the original, and it is just fabulous. I am looking (...) (22 years ago, 25-Oct-02, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: Romanesque Church
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(...) tried to do that myself a few times, I know the amount of work that goes into such an ordeal ... The main tower is splendid. I am glad you stayed true to the colors of the actual church (grey) and that you posted the real pictures for (...) (22 years ago, 25-Oct-02, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: Romanesque Church
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Peter, That's just beautiful! Bruce (22 years ago, 25-Oct-02, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: Romanesque Church
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(...) studs on sides) for decoration. I see that you've also found a good solution to the problem of how to build a good Lego cross---I'll see if it scales well for my (much smaller) church. The "rounded" bay via hinges and a clever roof works very (...) (22 years ago, 25-Oct-02, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: Romanesque Church
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(...) Hi Peter, I was just checking this out. (I remembered it from the train show too...I wondered who built it). I really like the details, the sand green stripes on the roof. Very nice. The only thing I don't like is the use of white for the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Oct-02, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Romanesque Church
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Some of you may have seen pictures from MichLUG's July 2002 GATS appearance of my church model. The original, St. Mary's of Redford Catholic Church in Detroit MI, was designed in the 1920s by the architect Ralph Adams Cram in a French Romanesque (...) (22 years ago, 25-Oct-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch) !!
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| | Enron Regional Headquarters (BrickTopia)
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It looks like Enron is thriving in some areas, despite their bankruptcy. In fact, they have just put up a modern new regional headquarters in BrickTopia. Here is the web page: (URL) are the raw BrickShelf pictures: (URL) BrickTopia site: (URL) are (...) (22 years ago, 19-Oct-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town) !!
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| | Re: elevators
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Sam Schad wrote in message ... (...) I built an external hand-operated elevator on a minifig scale office building a few years ago (URL) the long rack and winder (URL) don't know whether it would stand up to a 6 year old though. Kevin ---...--- NEW (...) (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | elevators
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As I seek to find/create the perfect Lego building, that can be played with by my six year old nephew and not destroyed within five minutes, I have yet to see any good plans for an elevator system. Has anyone seen anything out there? Either (...) (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | BrickTopia Spaceport
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This is the massive, new BrickTopia Spaceport. The raw BrickShelf pictures are here: (URL) associated web pages with descriptions are here: (URL) I've designed a new space launch vehicle: (URL) is the main BrickTopia web site: (URL) is appreciated (22 years ago, 6-Oct-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.space, lugnet.town) !
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| | Re: Microscale City - Kehaar
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(...) Thanx! (...) This is strictly a fun MLCAD exercise...I don't even have all of these pieces. I can build some of them, but not all, and definitely not all of them at once. And the color choices aren't strictly by-the-book on some pieces, at (...) (22 years ago, 4-Oct-02, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: Microscale City - Kehaar
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(...) Great Job Tony! But do you have them built or are you still working on them? Hasta La Vista, Sean (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: Microscale City - Kehaar
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(...) Thanx! Glad you like it! (...) Working on it...keep checking in every now and again. Peace and Long Life, Tony Alexander (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: Microscale City - Kehaar
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(...) Damn goo' city, rabbit! :D I like the city, if only we could see it all assembled or more buildings... ~Evan Butzlaff (22 years ago, 2-Oct-02, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: Microscale City - Kehaar
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(...) Yeah, but if there's a significance in my choosing it, I'm not aware of it. It just sounded like a cool city name. I know I just really got into the "small-scale underground city" idea of the book, and maybe this tripped something in my head (...) (22 years ago, 2-Oct-02, to lugnet.build.arch)
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